darkling

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Only the police themselves go darkling, and grope in the night for misdemeanants.

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  1. adverb In the dark.
  2. adjective Occurring or enacted in the dark.
  3. adjective Dark; dim.

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  • The boy Louis did not follow the path down to the front but turned off it to his right and slithered, darkling, along tortuous passages that ran uphill and down, behind the backs of cottages, some occupied and some deserted. —  Last Ditch - Ngaio Marsh - Roderick Alleyn 29
  • He left Troy fast asleep and found his way through their bedroom, darkling, to his dressing-room, where he shaved and dipped his head in cold water. —  Tied Up in Tinsel - Marsh, Ngaio - Allyn 27
  • And in 1842, as soon as he is fairly quit of it, the old darkling or waywardly gleaming stream of thought and imagination flows freshly, untamably forward. —  A Study Of Hawthorne
  • Soldiers with the white strings of canteens crossing their breasts were journeying to and from a stream that ran, darkling, out of the tangled woodland on their right On the opposite side of the road were the lines of the Seventieth Indiana, their colors, furled in oilcloth, lying horizontally across the forks of two stacks of rifles. —  Special Messenger
  • Under me the mass seethes darkling, and from it I rise to light and air. —  The Silver Crown Another Book of Fables
 

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  1. = Scots darklins; from dark + diminutive -ling.
  2. Ppr. of darkle, v.
 

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/ˈdɑrklɪŋ/
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